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Ayumi Ito
Born: 14th Apr 1980 Tokyo, Japan
Dept: Acting
Born in Tokyo, Ayumi Ito has always had a love for movies and art. She made her big-screen debut in Nobuhiko Obayashi's The Water Travelers: Samurai Kids. Her distinctive style led to her critically acclaimed performance in Swallowtail Butterfly, directed by the renowned Director Shunji Iwai. At 16-years-old, Ayumi was awarded both the Best New Actress Award as well as the Best Supporting Actress Award at the 20th Annual Japanese Academy Awards.
Ayumi's career has blossomed into starring roles in several successful films and television shows. She trained in LA and New York and has worked globally with world-renown Chinese director and artist Zhuangzhuang Tian, Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), among other great filmmakers. Ayumi's performance in the the Fuji TV drama Belle de Jour was so strong that she reprised the role when it became a feature film and box-office hit, earning over 2.3 billion JPY. She is also the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the animated film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Off-screen, Ayumi is a talented vocalist and recording artist. Her passion for art continues to thrive and she brings characters to life in her performances.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 98
Film: 66 (67%)
Television: 32 (33%)
Remaining genres not in graph: History, Documentary, Family, Thriller, Animation, War, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Soap, Action & Adventure, Talk
Filmography
Original title: チェイサーゲームW 水魚の交わり
2026
Seven years after the events of “Chaser Game W2: The Beautiful Celestial Maidens”—Itsuki and Fuyu now live in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture, wit ... view
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Original title: ただいまって言える場所
2026
Eriko is a Junior high school teacher, who is reluctant to go to school. She struggles to be independent, and her room looks like a child's room. Mean ... view
Character:
Original title: 白の花実
2025
Set in an all-girls Christian boarding school, Anna always feels like an outsider due to her ability to see ghosts. Her roommate, Rika, is the complet ... view
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Oct 2025 (first aired)
A brilliant chocolatier who's afraid of making eye contact meets an heir who can't touch others — but somehow, they're immune to each other. ... view
Character:
Motomi Kawamura (8 ep.)
Nov 2024 (first aired)
After losing her fiancé in an accident, Saeko feels an inexplicable connection to a stranger — who, by a twist of fate, received his heart and memo ... view
Character:
Midori Tateishi (8 ep.)
Feb 2024 (first aired)
Kishibe Midori (Ikeda Elaiza), an editor for a popular fashion magazine, finds herself transferring to the lexicography division following the magazin ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Dec 2023 (first aired)
After a selfless act costs him his life, teen delinquent Yusuke Urameshi is chosen as a Spirit Detective to investigate cases involving rogue yokai. ... view
Character:
Atsuko Urameshi (2 ep.)
Original title: 忌怪島／きかいじま
2023
Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world. ... view
Character:
Ide
Apr 2023 (first aired)
Minami Hiromi is an FBI agent visiting Japan from the US for a limited time. Minami lost his sight due to an accident in the past and he is called the ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Dr.コトー診療所
2022
In this drama set on Shikina Island, a far-flung island of the Japanese archipelago located more than six hours from the Japanese main islands, the yo ... view
Character:
Rika Ando
2022
Who can tell the scariest story? Three friends try to out wit each other on a camping trip in Hawaii. But only one can win The Story Game. ... view
Character:
Michiko
Apr 2022 (first aired)
A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice pol ... view
Character:
Misaki (15 ep.)
Original title: ノイズ
2022
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsu ... view
Character:
Chihiro Aoki
2021
Since the end of their pirate radio station, life has been quiet for the Kurupt FM boys, but everything is about to change. News reaches them that one ... view
Character:
Ishika
Original title: 海辺の映画館－キネマの玉手箱
2020
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen. ... view
Character:
Yoshiko Kawashima
Oct 2019 (first aired)
Determined to attain three stars, a middle-aged female chef teams up with a disgraced Michelin-starred chef to start a new restaurant together. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Oct 2019 (first aired)
Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated with how people ... view
Character:
Rieko Ichikawa (1 ep.)
Jul 2019 (first aired)
Yumika is an actress. Since she was a child, she has had to endure her mother Yoshika (Shinobu Terajima) controlling her life. Yoshika is a “poison ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Original title: チア男子!!
2019
Haruki Bando decides to quit his family's sport of judo after a shoulder injury and start a new project with his childhood friend Kazuma. Together the ... view
Character:
Takagi Satsuki
Apr 2019 (first aired)
Iori Igarashi is a talented radiographer who believes the “truth” is definitely captured in CT and MRI images. He and radiologist An Amakasu work ... view
Character:
Shizuku Ikeda (3 ep.)
Jan 2019 (first aired)
Shirato Takamasa is a detective at the Investigation Cooperation Section of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. His job is to catch wanted crimi ... view
Character:
Chiharu (5 ep.)
Original title: CHIEF～警視庁IR分析室～
2018
ogane Takichi, the CEO of a construction company, is shot dead in the street in Nishi Shinjuku in Tokyo. The only eyewitness, Odagiri Naoto, refuses t ... view
Character:
Izumoto Noriko
Jan 2018 (first aired)
Matsuo Ryo works at a gardening company. He thinks women are annoying. At a client’s office, he meets Satogawa Akane who works as a CEO’s secretar ... view
Character:
Satokawa Akane (7 ep.)
Jan 2018 (first aired)
Taking place in the spring of 1992, the story begins with the father of the Makioka company handing his company over. It starts a new era for the live ... view
Character:
Makioka Yukiko (4 ep.)
Original title: 関ヶ原
2017
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the ... view
Character:
Shirohebi
Jul 2017 (first aired)
Miyaji is a full-time housewife who has no interest in dressing herself. One day, her life changes completely as she was scouted as a reader model for ... view
Character:
Eri Okita (9 ep.)
Original title: 昼顔
2017
Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet a ... view
Character:
Noriko Kitano
Jul 2016 (first aired)
Natsuko is going back to the advertising agency she worked for before taking maternity leave and is shocked to learn that she is not the creative dire ... view
Character:
Miyuki Sakabe (10 ep.)
Jan 2016 (first aired)
30-year-old Kyoko has a "job". The story starts with her looking back 20 years to her boarding school of Yoko Gakuen in the mountains. Tomohiko, Miwa, ... view
Character:
Horie Tatsuko (10 ep.)
Jul 2015 (first aired)
35-year-old Hanada Yoneko is a detective of Ryogoku Police Precinct who is looking for a marriage partner. She swings between love and justice as she ... view
Character:
Hanada Yoneko (12 ep.)
Jul 2014 (first aired)
Life is simple for Sasamoto Sawa, a young housewife, but when the adulteress Takigawa Rikako moves into her neighborhood, so too does a new world of s ... view
Character:
Noriko Kitano (11 ep.)
2014
The movie is set in Japan and tells the story of Furu, a young aspiring musician, who is dreaming of a getaway out of his small coastal town in Northe ... view
Character:
Yukino
Apr 2014 (first aired)
Shinigami-kun, alias grim reaper #413, is a rookie who pronounces the death of those scheduled to die and brings souls to the nether world. He would a ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: ジャッジ！
2014
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arrogant boss Otaki Ichiro to take his place as a jud ... view
Character:
Kiichiro Ota's Ex-girlfriend
Original title: シャニダールの花
2013
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is ... view
Character:
Yurie
Original title: 贖罪
2013
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she wa ... view
Character:
Mayu Murakami
Original title: 横道世之介
2013
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yonosuke Yokomichi arrives in Tokyo from Nagasaki. Ord ... view
Character:
Chiharu Katase
Original title: 渾身
2013
Tamiko (Ayumi Ito) lives happily with her husband Hideaki (Sho Aoyagi) and step-daughter Kotoyo (Hazuki Inoue). Tamiko married her deceased friend Mar ... view
Character:
Tamiko Sakamoto
Oct 2012 (first aired)
"Kekkon Shinai" follows the lives of single people in their 30's and 40's. ... view
Character:
Mizuki Kono (11 ep.)
Original title: スープ〜生まれ変わりの物語〜
2012
Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. On ... view
Character:
Mika Shibuya
Apr 2012 (first aired)
In this modern adaptation of the Dostoyevsky classic, a loner named Miroku takes it upon himself to kill a teenage girl leading a prostitution ring. S ... view
Character:
Tachi Yoshino (6 ep.)
Jan 2012 (first aired)
The murder of a young girl shocks a small Japanese village, and the victim's mother is distraught when the classmates her daughter was playing with al ... view
Character:
Mayu Murakami (1 ep.)
2012
Yumi moves into her boyfriend's Tokyo apartment but on the night of the move, he is called away for business in New York. The couple communicates over ... view
Character:
Yumi
2011
Summoned by the black sphere, Kei and Masaru fight against extraterrestrials until Masaru grows tired of fighting and refuses to continue. ... view
Character:
Eriko Ayukawa
Apr 2011 (first aired)
Ohisama is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2011 in the Asadora time slot.
Set in Nagano prefecture, "Ohisama" covers the life of Yok ... view
Character:
Natsuko Takahashi (0 ep.)
2010
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and ... view
Character:
Eriko Ayukawa
Original title: ソラニン
2010
Meiko and Taneda are a couple graduated from university two years ago. Unhappy with their lives, Meiko quits her job and encourages Taneda to have his ... view
Character:
Ai Kotani
Original title: 花のあと
2010
Ito, daughter of a clan official, encounters Magoshiro Eguchi. Magoshiro is a low ranking samurai sparks an attraction with Ito. Ito challenges Magosh ... view
Character:
Kayo
Original title: BANDAGE バンデイジ
2010
Set in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high school, Asako, who goes to a concert and meets Natsu, vocal ... view
Character:
Nobuko Yukari
Oct 2009 (first aired)
Set in a small restaurant in the corner of a shopping district. The unusual eatery is only open after midnight, and its standard menu consists of just ... view
Character:
Ikumi (1 ep.)
Original title: ちゃんと伝える
2009
Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before i ... view
Character:
Yoko Nakagawa
Original title: デンゼルを中心としたオリジナルアニメ
2009
It's been four years since Meteor fell on Midgar. Denzel meets Reeve at an outskirts coffee shop about joining the World Regenesis Organization. Upon ... view
Character:
Tifa Lockhart (voice)
Original title: 青い鳥
2008
Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of th ... view
Character:
Ms. Shimazaki
Original title: TOKYO!
2008
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. ... view
Character:
Akemi (segment "Interior Design")
Original title: 遠くの空に消えた
2007
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably ... view
Character:
Sawako
Original title: 吴清源
2007
The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the t ... view
Character:
Kazuko Nakahara
Original title: 歌謡曲だよ、人生は
2007
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the mu ... view
Character:
Original title: 東京タワー オカンとボクと、時々、オトン
2007
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn ... view
Character:
Tamami
Character:
Ai
Original title: こおろぎ
2006
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast. There she ta ... view
Character:
Eiko
Original title: 親指さがし
2006
Eight school friends innocently join together to play a game that, if played well, promised to make their greatest dreams come true. But, they soon di ... view
Character:
Chie
Original title: チェケラッチョ!!
2006
Tomboy Yui (Mao Inoue) brings her 3 male friends along with her to see a live performance of local Okinawan rap group, “Workaholic”. Upon witnessi ... view
Character:
Nagisa Nakamura
Original title: 陶器人形
2006
Pottery factory owner Ming Fu (Ng Kai Wah) is haunted by visions of the blazing death of his business partner in a suspicious fire. Widowed, Ming is ... view
Character:
Zhen Zi
Original title: カーテンコール
2005
Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a ... view
Character:
Kaori Hashimoto
Original title: ホールドアップダウン
2005
A bank robbery goes completely to pot, a pair of shoplifters get both an old man and a cop behind them. It is the beginning of this zany comedy, inclu ... view
Character:
Kyoko Miyazaki
Original title: ラストオーダー -ファイナルファンタジーVII-
2005
After the destruction of Nibelheim at the hands of Sephiroth, Zack and Cloud are on the run from Shinra Inc. As they make their way back to Midgar, th ... view
Character:
Tifa Lockhart (voice)
2005
Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people sl ... view
Character:
Tifa Lockhart (voice)
Original title: 理由
2004
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens ... view
Character:
Ayako Takarai
Original title: 雨鱒の川
2004
8-year old boy, Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother, surrounded by nature. His mother, Satsuki, has a weak consti ... view
Character:
Mika Inoue
Original title: 下弦の月〜ラスト・クォーター
2004
Do you believe in love after death? On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mizuki (Kuriyama) doesn't have a lot to celebrate about. Her mother recently comm ... view
Character:
Sayaka Kamijo
Original title: 花とアリス
2004
Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious. ... view
Character:
Saori Ikeda
Original title: きょうのできごと
2004
Masamichi is about to take up postgraduate study. He invites six student friends round for a farewell dinner at his Kyoto flat. ... view
Character:
Kate
2004
Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao must succeed to save his ... view
Character:
Haruko Kuramochi
Original title: ほんとにあった！呪いのビデオ７
2003
A collection of psychic images received by general posts. Fear multiplies! Earth-bound spirits, vengeful spirits, floating spirits, guardian spirits . ... view
Character:
Original title: さよなら、クロ
2003
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high school's grounds. The dog, named Kuro, stays at the ... view
Character:
Yukiko Igarashi
Original title: ふくろう
2003
A mother and daughter are stranded in small, isolated cabin, and are starving to death. In order to survive, they plan to entice men that happen to st ... view
Character:
Emiko
Original title: 呼吸 「リリイ・シュシュのすべて」のすべて
2002
The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS ... view
Character:
Original title: リリイ・シュシュのすべて
2001
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relation ... view
Character:
Yōko Kuno
Original title: 日曜日は終わらない
1999
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy ... view
Character:
Apr 1999 (first aired)
Hayakawa Ai commits a crime which lands her in a correction facility for juveniles. There she meets & becomes firm friends with four other delinquents ... view
Character:
Eriko Matsuda (12 ep.)
Original title: のど自慢
1999
Traditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for amateur singers along with a confused teenager (Ôtomo) and ... view
Character:
Jan 1999 (first aired)
Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
Original title: カンゾー先生
1998
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp. ... view
Character:
Original title: SADA 戯作・阿部定の生涯
1998
The film follows the life of Sada Abe, who became a celebrity in 1936 after strangling her lover and slicing off his penis. ... view
Character:
Maid
Original title: 水の中の八月
1998
A refined psychological portrait of youths on their way to maturity ... view
Character:
Original title: 夏時間の大人たち
1997
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns th ... view
Character:
High School Girl
Original title: スワロウテイル
1996
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan. ... view
Character:
Ageha
Original title: 水の旅人－侍KIDS－
1993
A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall. ... view
Character:
Chizuko Kusubayashi